{"id":52642,"date":"2017-04-23T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/energy-bills-whats-the-difference-between-tory-cap-and-miliband-freeze\/"},"modified":"2017-04-23T22:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:19:04","slug":"energy-bills-whats-the-difference-between-tory-cap-and-miliband-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/energy-bills-whats-the-difference-between-tory-cap-and-miliband-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy bills: what's the difference between Tory cap and Miliband freeze?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAs newspapers alter their views on energy market intervention consumers must work out what it would mean for themIt\u2019s not what you know but who you know. To prove the aphorism, compare the response to Theresa May\u2019s promise to cap energy bills, and the furore over Ed Miliband\u2019s pledge to do something very similar four years ago. When the former Labour leader called for a 20-month price freeze in the face of rising gas and electricity costs, he was ridiculed. \u201cBack to the bad old days,\u201d screamed the Daily Mail front page in September 2013. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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